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"Senior software engineers are the most experienced member of a software team and usually carry the most responsibility and authority of that team. Because of this, interviews will be designed to find candidates who have expert knowledge of the field and years of experience as a software engineer. Expect to be asked tough technical questions and to give examples of previous projects that you have worked on."

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- HR chat: - Walk through CV. - Asked about experience related to the tech specs from client. - Technical interview: - Years of experience with Go. - Experience with CI/CD. - Experience with Kubernetes. - Experience with service mesh. - Open up IDE, show how you would layout the files of a Go project that deployed a Node.js app to AWS EC2. - What are the steps required to deploy? - Purpose of `test.go`. Whats it used for? What have you used it for? - Have you used Dialer before? - Upsides to using Go to deploy to AWS over Terraform? - Downsides to running Go on the cloud compared to other languages?
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Photon

4.3★
Jun 21, 2024

- HR chat: - Walk through CV. - Asked about experience related to the tech specs from client. - Technical interview: - Years of experience with Go. - Experience with CI/CD. - Experience with Kubernetes. - Experience with service mesh. - Open up IDE, show how you would layout the files of a Go project that deployed a Node.js app to AWS EC2. - What are the steps required to deploy? - Purpose of `test.go`. Whats it used for? What have you used it for? - Have you used Dialer before? - Upsides to using Go to deploy to AWS over Terraform? - Downsides to running Go on the cloud compared to other languages?

There was a mix of behaviorial, system design and coding questions. Cannot reveal specifics due to NDA, but most technical questions were in the LeetCode-medium category. If you're proficient with LeetCode-medium and some LeetCode-hard problems and prepare for general system design interview questions, you're likely to do well.
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Poshmark

4★
Mar 1, 2019

There was a mix of behaviorial, system design and coding questions. Cannot reveal specifics due to NDA, but most technical questions were in the LeetCode-medium category. If you're proficient with LeetCode-medium and some LeetCode-hard problems and prepare for general system design interview questions, you're likely to do well.

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